Kali Malone composes post-minimalist pieces implementing specific tuning systems, including works for choirs and chamber ensembles as well as acoustic and electronic instruments. She is best known for her pipe organ compositions, including the acclaimed 2019 release The Sacrificial Code, though she has also produced electro-acoustic drone releases such as 2022's Living Torch and has additionally participated in projects ranging from noise to shoegaze. She collaborated with Stephen O'Malley and Lucy Railton for 2023's Does Spring Hide Its Joy.
Kali Malone was born in Colorado in 1994 and later moved to Stockholm in order to study electro-acoustic composition in 2012. She participated in an ensemble called Golden Offence Orchestra and conducted an arrangement of the Pauline Oliveros piece "To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in recognition to their desperation." She also played in an experimental audiovisual group named Hästköttskandalen, along with musicians such as Ellen Arkbro and Maria W. Horn, and she was the leader of the shoegaze group Swap Babies. Malone and Horn co-founded the label and concert series XKatedral in 2016. Malone released several limited cassettes of her music, including pieces with Arkbro and Caterina Barbieri, and her first full-length LP, Velocity of Sleep, appeared in 2017. Her EP Organ Dirges 2016-2017 was released by Ascetic House the following year, and Cast of Mind, an LP of horn-based drones, appeared on Hollow Ground. Malone collaborated with Acronym on an ambient techno EP titled The Torrid Eye, which was released by Stilla Ton at the beginning of 2019. The Sacrificial Code, a nearly two-hour set of pipe organ compositions, was released by iDEAL Recordings and quickly earned praise from critics and listeners. Malone released Studies for Organ, a tape of rehearsals, in 2020 and appeared on former Coil member Drew McDowall's fourth solo album, Agalma. She contributed a piece to Important Records' 2021 release The Harmonic Series Vol. 2, along with other composers such as Tashi Wada and Catherine Lamb. Living Torch, commissioned by electro-acoustic music studio GRM and released by their Portraits GRM imprint, appeared in 2022. Malone recorded Does Spring Hide Its Joy, a set of three hour-long drones, with guitarist Stephen O'Malley and cellist Lucy Railton. The album was released by O'Malley's Ideologic Organ in 2023.
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